Chorus:
All day up to his neck in sand (sand)
living the life of the mind X2
Covering his heart with demand (-mands)
blocking his own Neshama’s wind
All day up to his neck in sand, living the life of the mind

Verse 1:
Rashbi and his son, think it through imagine them, teaching through their practicum both secluded in a cave.
Were they addicts gone workaholics tragic pawns tryna always pack it on or were they really truly being brave?
Shimon bar Yohai parallels Natan Scharansky,
both prisoners of conscience and aren’t seen,
Somehow survived on miracles and Torah seeds.
And both struggled with their reentry
Out of trials look up at stars and down
Their glow will make it hard to drown
We all do our own part to crown
Ribbono Shel Olam, The one above, it starts with how
Rashbi showed his buddies the way that he could shoulder studies life in shoulda’s ugly not taking risk sure does sully
But Rashbi’s road was muddy, drove the buggy over bodies, his approach was nutty slow and steady Torah Datti

Chorus:
All day up to his neck in sand, living the life of the mind X2
Covering his heart with demand,
blocking his own Neshama’s wind
All day up to his neck in sand, living the life of the mind

Verse 2:
Abound yet without loving connection it slowly withered away
Left his wife, he said it was for protection, not even with her to stay
I don’t need nobody else with me but G-d, 365 Yom Kippur today
Emancipation of your body’s not odd, for the liberation why even deliberate?
We circle around and raise his teachings
with these words and sounds amazed he’s reaching
12 years of god yearning just to raise the ceiling
for torah learning but was it misplaced in meaning

caused intense burning and moral unfurling
Alone with his son studying texts so complex and both are perplexed they merge to merely vex but most of life is inside of the mystery’s effects (double x)

Chorus:
All day up to his neck in sand, living the life of the mind X2
Covering his heart with demand,
blocking his own Neshama’s wind
All day up to his neck in sand, living the life of the mind